Novelist Josephine Hart is more than a poetry enthusiast; she's an evangelist. Determined to seduce others into a love of verse she's organised a sort of Dead Poets Society where some of the country's best known actors read Auden, Eliot, Plath, Yeats and the other great poets of the English language.
So is maintaining the oral tradition the best way of keeping poetry alive and flourishing? And given the quality of both our classic and contemporary poets, why doesn't poetry play a larger role in our national life?
Josephine Hart and young working poet Sasha Dugdale join Jenni to discuss.
The next reading organised by Josephine is of WH Auden at the British Library on 18 February 2004.
